Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 15

Devanagari script

जातूकर्ण्यो वसिष्ठश्च सावर्णिश्च पराशरः । शांडिल्यश्च पुलस्त्यश्च वत्सश्चैव महातपाः

Transliteration

jātūkarṇyo vasiṣṭhaśca sāvarṇiśca parāśaraḥ | śāṃḍilyaśca pulastyaśca vatsaścaiva mahātapāḥ

Translation

जातूकर्ण्यो वसिष्ठश्च सावर्णिश्च पराशरः। शांडिल्यश्च पुलस्त्यश्च वत्सश्चैव महातपाः॥

Word by Word

• जातूकर्ण्यः: Jātūkarṇya
• जातूकर्ण्यः: Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: जातूकर्ण्य (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा (1st), एकवचन — ऋषिनाम

• वसिष्ठः: Vasiṣṭha
• वसिष्ठः: Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: वसिष्ठ (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा (1st), एकवचन — ऋषिनाम

• च: and
• च: Sambandha (Connector/समुच्चय)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: च (अव्यय)
• Form: अव्यय (समुच्चय) — 'and'

• सावर्णिः: Sāvarṇi
• सावर्णिः: Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: सावर्णि (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा (1st), एकवचन — ऋषिनाम

• च: and
• च: Sambandha (Connector/समुच्चय)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: च (अव्यय)
• Form: अव्यय (समुच्चय) — 'and'

• पराशरः: Parāśara
• पराशरः: Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: पराशर (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा (1st), एकवचन — ऋषिनाम

• शांडिल्यः: Śāṃḍilya
• शांडिल्यः: Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: शांडिल्य (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा (1st), एकवचन — ऋषिनाम

• च: and
• च: Sambandha (Connector/समुच्चय)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: च (अव्यय)
• Form: अव्यय (समुच्चय) — 'and'

• पुलस्त्यः: Pulastya
• पुलस्त्यः: Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: पुलस्त्य (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा (1st), एकवचन — ऋषिनाम

• च: and
• च: Sambandha (Connector/समुच्चय)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: च (अव्यय)
• Form: अव्यय (समुच्चय) — 'and'

• वत्सः: Vatsa
• वत्सः: Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: वत्स (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा (1st), एकवचन — ऋषिनाम

• च: and
• च: Sambandha (Connector/समुच्चय)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: च (अव्यय)
• Form: अव्यय (समुच्चय) — 'and'

• एव: indeed
• एव: Sambandha (Particle/निपात)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: एव (अव्यय)
• Form: अव्यय (निपात) — emphasis

• महातपाः: great ascetics
• महातपाः: Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: महा + तपस् (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, प्रथमा (1st), बहुवचन — 'great ascetics' (bahuvrīhi)

Speaker

Narrator (Purāṇic narrator; specific speaker not explicit in this excerpt)

Tirtha Mahatmya

Tirtha: Prabhāsa (Saṅgāleśvara area)

Type: kshetra

Visual Art Cues

Scene: A larger assembly hall or open courtyard near the shrine where Jātūkarṇya, Vasiṣṭha, Sāvarṇi, Parāśara, Śāṇḍilya, Pulastya, and Vatsa sit on kuśa mats, with fire-altars and a distant liṅga visible.

Characters & Entities

• Jātūkarṇya
• Vasiṣṭha
• Sāvarṇi
• Parāśara
• Śāṇḍilya
• Pulastya
• Vatsa

FAQs

What is the primary spiritual lesson of this shloka?

Association with saintly beings and their disciplines is itself a marker of a tīrtha’s greatness and a model for seekers.

Which specific holy site (Tirtha) is glorified here?

Prabhāsa-kṣetra (Prabhāsa), praised through the roll-call of eminent ṛṣis connected to it.

What ritualistic prescription is mentioned?

None explicitly; the verse continues the enumeration of sages whose tapas supports the site’s māhātmya.